Star Wars RPG

[gangsta]

haven't decided on the title or the storyline, but here goes...

real-time mission-based SW RPG (zelda-like fighting) with lightsabers, energy shields, and other stuff y'all and I can think up...build your own lightsaber-maybe a minigame...customizable characters and stats...b/w but possibly greyscale after major coding is over (if I can learn about interrupts)...using Timendus's API...and that's a lot of dots...so i'll shut up now...

[Liazon]

Actually, a game like KOTOR Tactics (Starwars version of FFT) might be fun in my opinion.

As for greyscale. I believe you can easily do 3 level greyscale if you allocate room for a second buffer and use some code to switch which buffer gets put on the screen every so often. Kinda tricky, but the theory is simple.

Sounds good nevertheless.

[tr1p1ea]

Actually a StarWars themed RPG for calcs sounds like an awesome idea! You may as well go with 4-level grayscale though .

Have you got any concept art or anything?

[dysfunction]

3-level runs at the same speed and takes the same amount of mem, so you might as well go with that... a Star Wars adventure game would great anyway, no matter how many colors

[Timendus]

using Timendus's API

Yay! Finally someone's going to use the API for something useful!

And about the greyscale; just use the API routines for that, it's pretty simple, even if you don't know anything about interrupts.

Edit: Read this about greyscale in the API, with example code a few posts further:
http://joepnet.com/hosted/maxcoderz/php ... 3950#33950

[gangsta]

Im gonna use zelda-style sprites for the character, but with a changeable robe-thing...but I don't know where to get the sprites or change them to b/w or GS...(i suck at pixel art)

[Liazon]

@everyone: Well I haven't gotten to that level of greyscale use so don't blame me if I want to learn how to do greyscale on my own.

[Timendus]

@everyone: Well I haven't gotten to that level of greyscale use so don't blame me if I want to learn how to do greyscale on my own.

If you ask me, that's exactely the kind of thinking that we, as a community, have to get rid of When you program something on a PC, and you want to put a few buttons on the screen, do you want to reinvent the mouse and video drivers as well? Do you implement your own GUI to bypass Windows? Of course not. Rely on other people's work, it'll give you much faster and often better results, because coding something as complex as a good greyscale interrupt is a project of it's own.

[lloydkirk1989]

I think the masters(Duck, Jim e) have already taken greyscale on the 83(84)+ to its limits, but if calcul wants to understand how it works thats a good thing.

[kalan_vod]

This sounds cool, kinda reminds me of catch 22 for calcs.

[Madskillz]

Honestly, I would love to see this game come to fruitation Gangsta...I wish you the best of luck mate. Any problems, be sure to ask around here, at revsoft, UTI, or anywhere else you can find it!

[thecheat]

interesting, I thought at first this was a side scroller (guess the halo game is dead unless someone else takes it on) but, an overhead view would be interesting.

now the real question is, how large do you want the guy, 16x16 would create some impressive detail, but, you wouldn't have much of the screen to fight the guys off... I'm already thinking up some sprites for this, it sounds interesting.


PS: I'm going to make vehicles and the whole lot, games like this have gone without them for too long, but, what era is this?

[thecheat]

modding some Zelda sprites I made a few charicters, side view only, I'm not good with the rest...

[katmaster]

Those are nice, both sets

[kalan_vod]

They look really good, double post?